Tour de Rizbee 2007 - Disc Golf Road Trip

[Rizbee]

To Chicagoland Disc Golfers,

My 15-year-old son and I will soon be traveling in your area on our 4th annual disc golf road trip, which we call the "Tour de Rizbee" (www.teamrizbee.com). This year we are traveling from San Diego to Milwaukee and back, July 15th through August 4th. Along with playing in the PDGA Am Worlds, we are traveling as ambassadors for Educational Disc Golf Experience (EDGE) and playing as many disc golf courses as possible.  We expect to be in your area Sat/Sun, July 21/22 and Sunday, July 29th.

One thing we are trying to do on our trip is introduce kids to the sport of disc golf. We are looking for interested players along our route that can help us with this. If you know of a summer day camp, recreation program, church group, etc. that would be interested in bringing some kids to your local course to play disc golf, please contact me at Rizbee@teamrizbee.com. We will supply beginner-friendly EDGE discs for the kids to use, introduce them to the rules of the game, and lead the new players through some basic throwing instruction. For the teachers, counselors and coaches that bring the kids we will have some examples of EDGE instructional materials and EDGE brochures, to help them find out how to bring EDGE and disc golf to their school or youth program (and they can play too!).

We will also be raising funds to support EDGE programs in our local community, by taking pledges per hole or course that we play while on our Tour (we plan on playing 60+ courses and 1,000+ holes over the 20 days and 5,000 miles of our trip). Fundraising tournaments will also be held at the start and finish lines of our trip and there will be some commemorative discs available for sale.

Please contact me at Rizbee@teamrizbee.com if you can help us out, or if you'd like to play a round of golf with us as we travel. Let's get those kids off the couch and play disc golf!

Thanks in advance,

Allen "Rizbee" Risley
PDGA # 1752
www.teamrizbee.com

[Rizbee]

Any tips on where to play?  We're picking up a friend at Midway on Saturday, July 20 around 1:30p, then heading north to Milwaukee.  Where should we head first?  How late is it light out to play?

Thanks in advance,

Rizbee

[mirth]

gets too late to see around 8:30 or so. UW Parkside is open for night golf until Midnight. Get mini glowsticks or splurge for the LED bobber lights.